Product Development Specialist

Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace automotive beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta Georgia Novelis has approximately 13000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

The Novelis Bay Minette AL team is seeking Product Development Specialist to work in the Bay Minette facility. The Product Development Specialist is responsible for creating current accurate flow paths plans for material manufactured at Bay Minette. This role will work within the Product Development team and partner with the internal Commercial resources Supply Chain Management and in accordance with guidance provided by Product Development Leader to complete customer specification requests. Additionally this role requires the ability to measure and monitor workload recognize errors or help chain needs and a high level of computer skills to work across plant systems.

Responsibilities:

• Embrace the Novelis Safety Absolutes to build a zero-injury culture and the Novelis cultural beliefs of Be Authentic Say Anything Be Open and Built Trust
• Create material flow path and production plan (Material Master) for individual specifications requested by customers.
• Work closely with Product Metallurgists Area Metallurgists and Supply Chain Management Team to enable timely order entry against the customer request.
• Use computer systems to complete improvements to the overall product planning process (Material Master functions in SAP)
• Maintain and update documented work instructions.
• Cross train from assigned flow-path to cover associates flow-path assignments.
• Monitor for new products requiring material master development within the markets that the facility supports.
• Develop existing training documents and visual flow path to encompass Material Master functions.
• Build necessary material masters to allow accurate product realization under the guidance of the Product Development Leader and Engineers.
• Coordinate with Supply Chain Management team to facilitate inventory management.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Associates or Bachelors degree in Material Science Metallurgy IT or related field from an accredited institution at the time of hire.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a technical/operational support role with a manufacturing environment and in Quality.
• Experience with SAP manufacturing systems
• Experience with ETQ software.
• Proficient in data analysis tools and techniques such as SQL Excel and PowerBi.
• Ability to adapt to changing data requirements software tolls and technology.

Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

What We Offer:

Novelis benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality competitive in the marketplace and affordable. These are a few of the benefits we offer to support you and your familys well-being:

• Medical dental and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Retiree Medical Plans medical and prescription drug coverage through Novelis sponsored Retiree Health Access
• Retirement Savings Account
• Employee assistance programs available 24/7 to you and your family
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance!

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Novelis newly announced Bay Minette facility will be located 35 miles northeast of Mobile AL and 45 miles west of Pensacola FL and is expected to create approximately 1000 high-paying advanced careers in modern manufacturing. This highly advanced rolling and recycling facility will be the first of its kind. It will primarily serve our customers in the beverage can and automotive markets. Novelis is committed to the community and will actively build partnerships in Baldwin County focused on recycling STEM education and workforce development. At Novelis we believe our culture of collaboration is our competitive advantage and we would love for you to consider building a career with us.

Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.

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